Bird flu is rampant around the world; ten million animals dead

Millions of poultry are affected in the USA, and there is no major poultry-breeding country in Europe that is unaffected. The bird flu epidemic is quite dramatic in the United States, but also in Europe. In Germany, the highly pathogenic virus was most recently found on a turkey fattening farm with 20,000 animals in Bavaria. In December, more than 14,000 turkeys will have to be killed on another German farm because of H5N1, shortly before 30,000 fattening ducks died there in North Rhine-Westphalia. Also in December, a farm in Poland with 104,000 laying hens had to be liquidated. In November, there were reports that bird flu was almost rampant in the United States and Europe. At that time, the virus was detected in a herd of 23,000 turkeys in the Cloppenburg area, while a total of 17.3 million (!) birds had to be killed in ...